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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

1,197 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 60

Wheat Cargoes. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 2

Wheat cargoes opened quietly yesterday at unchanged rates, but later reports of grain congestion at Montreal and other lake ports caused a set back. Liverpool…

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London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday, 12,438 bales, including 1557 bales from Australia, and 4468 from New Zealand, were offered. There was a limited offering of merinos,…

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London Wool Sales March Prices Maintained LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 1

At the London wool sales to-day New South Wales offered 658, Queensland 739. Victoria 1408, West Australia 695. Tasmania 340, and New…

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Farm and Dairy Nitrogen for Cereals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 14

The Wauraltee branch of the Agricultural Bureau in South Australia has prepared a report on experiments conducted by Mr. Whitcombe in the Stansbury scrub…

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National Problem American Wheat Surplus Railway Rates Reduced Washington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 5

Faced by an immediate serious problem of 250,000,000 bushels of wheat held over, with a "bumper" crop to be marketed about July 15, government officials…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 2

Business in dairy produce was exceptionally quiet during the week, in spite of the fact that Wednesday marked the beginning of a new month. Quotations…

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Commercial the Week's Review Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 2

Fresh shipments of potatoes from Tasmania this week arrived in good condition. Although the market receded £1 a ton, the demand was very easy. The…

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Commercial London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 3

At the wool sales 10,803 bales were offered, including 3351 Australian and 5789 New Zealand. There was a limited selection of morions, principally of good…

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The Wheat Ships Race From Australia Cecilie Reaches England London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 5

Captain Reuben de Cloux, Master of the Herzegin Cecile, landed at Falmouth yesterday, happy in winning thrice successively the wheat race from…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4

To-day's offering of 12,013 bales at the Sydney wool sales was distinctly below average, so far as quality is concerned. A total of 10,924 were sold under the…

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Rival or Ally? For Australian Wool Trade New Fibre Process Reduce Cost of Raw Materials LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 1

The new wool substitute which has attracted a great deal of attention among European textile manufacturers is not, according to experts, a product likely to affect the Australian pastoral industry…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 7

At to-day's week auctions 10,672 bales were offered and [?]ll were sold, Privately 1420 bales were disposed of. The quality was again much below the average…

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World's Wheat Immense Carry-over the Position in America Winnipeg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 7

Nobody here is willing to forecast the effect of the proposed freight rate reduction on the United States export of wheat. The consensus of opinion is that it has,…

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Reducing Costs New Type of Fibre Combination with Wool London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 7

A large gathering of men interested in the textile industry attended the lunch given yesterday by Textiles (New Process), Ltd…

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Williamtown Farmers' Disabilities

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 11

Among the dairymen of the Lower Hunter, much concern has been manifested over the question of the price of milk. In supporting the protest of the dairy…

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A Hunter Valley Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 6

A number of visiting delegates to the conference of the Hunter River and Lower North Coast Agricultural Bureaux, which sat at Singleton last week, were taken on…

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Maitland Farmers Differ

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

Representations by farmers of the Louth Park area at Maitland to have a canal constructed for the purpose of draining flood waters from their…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 4

At the Sydney wool sales to-day 11,102 bales were offered, and 9000 sold. Private sales totalled 1635. The Sydney wool-selling broken report:…

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Amazing Congestion Canadian Wheat Trade Absolute Paralysis Montreal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

The Eastern grain tie-up has reached a state of absolute paralysis, with 90 loaded Lake freighters held up here and at Port Colborne. Vessels are paying off crows…

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Cheaper Than Wool Textile Invention Warning to Australia London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

"Are the wool kings of Australia shaking in their shoes as a result of the announcement that artificial wool is an accomplished fact, or is the invention…

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